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Post by 01010010 01101001 01100011 on Jan 26, 2012 18:35:06 GMT -5
HULK HOGAN RETURNS TO THE RING: TNA IN NOTTINGHAM, ENGLAND
by Mark David Bradshaw @ 5:28 PM on 1/26/2012
TNA returned to Nottingham, Great Britain tonight:
*Christy Hemme is our host.
*Doug Willliams defeated Gunner.
*Samoa Joe vs. Crimson went to a Double DQ.
*TNA X-Division champ Austin Aries defeated Alex Shelley and Mark Haskins.
*TNA Knockouts champion Gail Kim won a Four Way over Madison Rayne, Tara and Mickie James.
*AJ Styles defeated Bully Ray. Great heat and match
*James Storm defeated TNA champ Bobby Roode by DQ. It then turned into a six man tag....
*Bobby Roode & Kurt Angle & Bully Ray vs. Hulk Hogan & Sting and James storm. Yes Hogan wrestled. He was safe and didn't take any bumps. Storm wins with the Hogan legdrop.
All three celebrated to end a great card.
Poor Sting's farewell tour was gatecrashed by Hogan!! Hogan super over course
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Post by ________ has left the building on Jan 26, 2012 21:14:46 GMT -5
Classic Hogan.
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Post by ICBM on Jan 26, 2012 21:56:20 GMT -5
Sting was likely very ok with this. Takes the load off him and likely drew money for this tour and next tour, IE; "look UK fans, you never know what'll happen at our shows. Buy tickets nooooowww!"
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Post by SAJ Forth on Jan 26, 2012 23:07:10 GMT -5
Sounds fun.
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Post by lildude8218 on Jan 27, 2012 0:03:40 GMT -5
Not in Nottingham!
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Post by DrBackflipsHoffman on Jan 27, 2012 0:59:41 GMT -5
The no bumps part of that report is false. He hit a pretty fluid Shooting Star Press to the outside late in the match at one point
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Post by Large Father Frigid on Jan 27, 2012 1:59:49 GMT -5
Hmm. Hogan wasn't originally scheduled for this tour. I assume he found out it was a sell-out and decided to leech onto this so he could take credit for selling out a TNA show.
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Post by spec on Jan 27, 2012 2:02:09 GMT -5
Great surprise. I had an inkling he might be appearing, but didn't think i'd get to see him wrestle. Say what you will about Hogan, but he's undoubtedly the biggest and most recognisable star that wrestling has ever produced. Never thought i'd get to see him live, but now I have. Brother!   YYYOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUU!!!! |
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Post by Back to being Cenanuff on Jan 27, 2012 6:40:35 GMT -5
Geez, he looks like that crazy neighbor that never wears a shirt.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Jan 27, 2012 8:32:10 GMT -5
Oh man, that was in my hometown as well. Wish I'd been there. I bet the pop was immense.
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Post by kyromax on Jan 27, 2012 9:30:07 GMT -5
"These 10+ people clearly showed up to see me and my ban Metallica"
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Post by SAJ Forth on Jan 27, 2012 12:30:05 GMT -5
Great surprise. I had an inkling he might be appearing, but didn't think i'd get to see him wrestle. Say what you will about Hogan, but he's undoubtedly the biggest and most recognisable star that wrestling has ever produced. Never thought i'd get to see him live, but now I have. Brother! YYYOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUU!!!!I want to see Hogan at some point break out the red & yellow. And I guess this means Sting is still crazy. |
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Post by dpg on Jan 27, 2012 13:50:57 GMT -5
I was there, crowd was pretty hot, more people than I thought turned up too (maybe 2-3,000) as it's a new market for TNA and Nottingham isn't known as a major wrestling town. They loved A J, Joe got cheered over Crimson heavily, Hogan got a huge pop as did Sting, there were a ton of Jeff Hardy fans that got dissapointed. I had to queue for a while for merch, of which they sold a ton.
They also announced Haskin's as from Nottingham and Douglas Williams got a huge pop, especially when he nailed the chaos theory. Gunner did a good job of working the crowd.
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Post by spec on Jan 27, 2012 22:43:24 GMT -5
Great surprise. I had an inkling he might be appearing, but didn't think i'd get to see him wrestle. Say what you will about Hogan, but he's undoubtedly the biggest and most recognisable star that wrestling has ever produced. Never thought i'd get to see him live, but now I have. Brother! YYYOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUU!!!!I want to see Hogan at some point break out the red & yellow. And I guess this means Sting is still crazy. He did have a yellow Hulkamania shirt on when he came to the ring. This was his entrance music: |
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Post by ThatDamnPotato on Jan 28, 2012 5:33:34 GMT -5
Hmm. Hogan wasn't originally scheduled for this tour. I assume he found out it was a sell-out and decided to leech onto this so he could take credit for selling out a TNA show. Hogan is the reason i'm thinking of getting a last minute ticket to see him in London tonight so i'm sure alot of people thought the same when they heard Hogan was coming. |
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